Jason Swann (left) was named Rush Rodeo Overall Grand Champion. He is pictured with NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and Rush CEO Rusty Rush.Rush Truck Center – Dallas technician Jason Swann took home $15,500 in cash and prizes Tuesday night along with bragging rights for the next 12 months – not to mention a dollar an hour pay raise.
Swann was named Overall Grand Champion at the 2013 Rush Tech Rodeo Tuesday night, also taking top honors in the heavy-duty Eaton category. He was also named Heavy-Duty Grand Champion for the fourth time in his career.
Lance Kilburn, of RTC – Atlanta, was named Overall Medium-Duty Champion. Kilburn also finished second in the medium-duty International division. Kilburn won $9,500 in cash and prizes along with a dollar an hour pay raise.
Other winners in this year’s competition were:
• Gonzalo Uribe, natural gas
• Louis Fontano, refuse
• Jayson McCarty, bus
• Humberto Elizondo, body repair
• Celestino Ramirez, body paint
• Steven Brain, medium-duty Hino
• Gavin Mathews, medium-duty Isuzu
• Gary Fassett, medium-duty International
• Mark Jones, medium-duty Peterbilt
• Sherman Brack, heavy-duty Cummins
• Travis Roark, heavy-duty, Paccar MX
• Dylan Moser, heavy-duty MaxxForce
• Robert Henry, heavy-duty Allison
Steven Brain was named Medium-Duty Reserve Champion and Ron Crofutt was named Heavy-Duty Reserve Champion.
Twelve Rush Truck Center technicians advanced to the Rush Tech Rodeo heavy-duty finals Tuesday morning.
Leopoldo Medrano, of Pico Rivera, and Robert Henry, of Dayton, went head-to-head on the Allison platform. Chris Zweifel, of El Paso, Jeffrey Bogatay, of Cleveland, and Sherman Brack, of Austin, squared off on a Cummins engine.
The Eaton platform featured Bryant Brandon, of Austin, Jason Swann, of Dallas, and Ronald Crofutt, of Denver. The MaxxForce competition pitted Hickory’s Dylan Moser against Charlotte’s Jake Gilliland. Working from the Paccar MX platform was Brian Smith, of Austin, and Travis Roark, of Oklahoma City.
Eight medium-duty techs also competed Tuesday. Doraville’s Mark Smith and Dallas’s Steven Brain worked from a Hino platform. Gary Fassett, of Twin Falls, and Lance Kilburn, of Atlanta, were on an International unit. Chris Williams, from Denver, and Gavin Mathews, of Atlanta, worked from an Isuzu platform and Mark Jones, of Denver, and Trinidad Garcia, of Escondido, worked from a Peterbilt.
